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Coolest Desktop Screenshot Wins Prize -- Winners Announced

Nov 20, 2009  By LJ Staff

Take a screenshot of your desktop and post it to the Linux Journal Flickr pool (or e-mail it to us). Our editors will pick the 5 they deem "coolest" on Monday and we'll post them here for all to revel in. Winners will receive our handsome new 2010 Tux the Penguin Wall Calendars as their prize.

The contest ended Sunday, November 22, 2009 at 5pm U.S. Central Time (23:00 GMT). Our 5 winners have been contacted via e-mail and are featured here below:

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Very Impressive!!!

Silent.JiT's picture
Submitted by Silent.JiT (not verified) on Wed, 12/02/2009 - 02:47.

Hi,
Great stuff.
I would really like to know how these spectacular effects were achieved.I used Fedora/uBuntu and couldn't make those look 1/10th as good as these.These are wow.

Screen shots 2 and 4,caught my attention.How do i achieve these.I want to know the distro,the theme,the icons,the wallpaper,the text effects,the rss reader.An email drop with the necessary info wont be a bad idea.:)

PS: I refuse to believe that these are edited images.

Desktop 4 icons

Shaun Mallette's picture
Submitted by Shaun Mallette on Mon, 12/07/2009 - 20:44.

Desktop 4 icons (http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Blended+Crystal?content=58001)
Wallpaper I think came from (http://browse.deviantart.com)
Using AWN dock, Conky and Screenlets

What is the transparent system info thing called in number two &

jfrice's picture
Submitted by jfrice (not verified) on Wed, 11/25/2009 - 02:48.

What is the transparent system info thing called in number two & four?. They all look amazing though.

The transparent system info

Shaun Mallette's picture
Submitted by Shaun Mallette on Mon, 12/07/2009 - 20:28.

The transparent system info is Conky.

Probably it is called

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 11/30/2009 - 21:26.

Probably it is called "OpenOffice Draw" or "GIMP".

Please , what's the rss

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 11/24/2009 - 16:07.

Please , what's the rss reader in screen two? Can you post configuration file?

I'm inspired

k.sangeeth's picture
Submitted by k.sangeeth on Mon, 11/23/2009 - 22:44.

good work all ... congrats

Sangeeth Keeriyadath
www.sangeek.com

Coolest

Raul's picture
Submitted by Raul (not verified) on Sat, 11/21/2009 - 22:53.

http://s176.photobucket.com/albums/w185/AnonymousAnonymo/?action=view&cu...

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